Effect of oxygen gradients on the activity and microbial community structure of a nitrifying, membrane-aerated biofilm

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1193-1204

  Downing, Leon S ^a   Nerenberg, Robert ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Membrane biofilm reactor; Membrane aerated biofilm reactor; Nitrification; Nitrobacter spp.; Nitrospira spp.; Shortcut

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; BIOFILTERS; BIOREACTORS; CELL MEMBRANES; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLUXES; FORECASTING; LIQUIDS; MEMBRANES; NITRATES; NITRATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; NONMETALS; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; SPECIAL EFFECTS;

AIR PRESSURES; AMMONIUM OXIDATIONS; BIOFILM MODELS; BULK LIQUIDS; CELL DENSITIES; CONTROLLING FACTORS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; DO CONCENTRATIONS; EFFECT OF OXYGENS; FIBER MEMBRANES; HIGH AFFINITIES; MEMBRANE BIOFILM REACTOR; MEMBRANE SURFACES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; NITRATE FLUXES; NITRIFICATION RATES; NITRITE ACCUMULATIONS; NITROBACTER; NITROBACTER SPP.; NITROSPIRA; NITROSPIRA SPP.; OXIDIZED NITROGENS; OXIDIZING BACTERIA; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; SHORTCUT; SHORTCUT NITRIFICATIONS; TOTAL NITROGENS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSORS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOFILM REACTOR; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE AERATED BIOFILM REACTOR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROBACTER; NONHUMAN; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN;

NITROBACTER; NITROSPIRA;

EID: 54349121334     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.22018     Document Type: Article

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